· Private foundation
The Vredenburg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Chariton | $25,000 |
| Russell Volunteer Fire Dept | $25,000 |
| City of Chariton | $25,000 |
| Almost Home Animal Rescue | $25,000 |
| Hope Learning Center | $25,000 |
| City of Chariton | $24,000 |
| Chariton Area ChamberMain Street | $20,000 |
| Iowa Public Radio | $20,000 |
| Salvation Army Lucas County | $15,000 |
| Chariton Community School District | $13,500 |
| Chariton Community School District | $12,500 |
| Lucas Co Preservation Alliance | $10,000 |
| Iowa PBS Foundation | $10,000 |
| YMCA Greater Des Moines | $10,000 |
| Lucas County Arts Council | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HLHOPE LEARNING CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +79%
- LCLUCAS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +7% · 43% of their budget
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CVCHARITON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- COCity of Charitonone grant, 2024 · $43k
- LCLucas County Arts Councilone grant, 2024 · $28k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
To improve member newspapers
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
Iowa Catholic Radio Foundation (the "Foundation") is a charitable foundation and nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa. It has been established to raise funds and utilize those funds to support Iowa Catholic…
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUCAS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Lucas County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds IOWA PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds LUCAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH COUNCIL OF LUCAS COUNTY IOWA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · South Central Iowa Community Founda · The Coons Foundation · Dekko Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vredenburg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vredenburg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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